SHANGHAI, April 16 — Chinese sellers of items from lunch boxes to appliances have taken to social media platform Rednote to generate sympathy purchases, telling domestic consumers they are offloading stock at bargain prices amid United States tariffs.

NEW YORK, Jan 17 — Chinese social media app RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu, gained nearly three million US users in one day earlier this week as a flood of self-proclaimed ‘TikTok Refugees’ joined, according to new data from analytics firm Similarweb.

SHANGHAI, Jan 16 — Users of the Chinese social media app RedNote welcomed “TikTok refugees” from the United States with selfies and messages yesterday, as Beijing said it encourages stronger cultural ties with other countries in response to the sudden influx.